Some people are running into the iBooks 'configuration error' after their untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak: There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks. In order to fix this, you can install iBooksFix2, from the insanelyi.com repo via Cydia. This fix is an updated version of iBooks...
iTunes Match launched first in the U.S., then went live in Canada and Internationally as promised by Apple. For $27.99 annually, Canadians can have access to the iCloud-powered music matching service. Apple has posted a new support page, FAQ, and video tutorial on how to setup iTunes Match. Here's how Apple describes iTunes Match: How...
Earlier today Apple launched iTunes Match in Canada, following through on their promise of its debut before the end of the year. For those that have attempted to purchase iTunes Match, you might have run into unknown error 5002 during your checkout, as seen below: Could not purchase "iTunes match". An unknown error occurred (5002). There...
When you take photos on an iOS device, your new photos are automatically uploaded to iCloud and pushed to all your other devices including your Mac's iPhoto, thanks to Photo Stream, a feature introduced by Apple with launch of iOS 5. However, Apple forgot to add support for editing these photos in iPhoto's Photo Stream folder...
By now, you must have seen tons of Siri related videos which can be found all over the web showing what can be achieved when Siri is combined with SiriProxy, for instance locking / unlocking and starting a car, fully controlling a television and even controlling third-party iOS apps. Now, this developer named Mark Hodder has combined SiriProxy with ioBridge, a small module...
We recently published a post showing how you can send group messages and emails with Siri, the digital voice assistant. Today, we'll show you how you can use Siri's voice dictation feature to dictate text to your Mac (via TUAW). All you need is an app on your iPhone 4S that allows you to access your...
Justin Horn from WhenWillApple.com has discovered a neat trick for sending group messages. Using Siri, it's possible to create a group text message by separating individual names with the conjunction “and”. He offers the following example: Me: Send text to Girlfriend and Chiyin and Jason and Miguel and Tom and Monica Siri: What do you...
Our friends over at FSM have posted a nice little tutorial on how you can enable FaceTime over 3G natively in iOS 5 on your jailbroken device. You must be already aware that FaceTime calls require both the caller and the recipient to be connected to a WiFi network. Even though 3G connections are found to...
A couple days ago we mentioned a tweak to bring shortcuts to your iPhone homescreen for various iOS settings such as Bluetooth, WiFi, Airplane Mode, etc. It required purchasing a 99 cent app called IconProject, but there is a free alternative out there. Just visit http://jp.deckers.net/iconsettings and follow the instructions below: 1) Choose the Settings...
Siri in Canada lacks location, map services, and restaurant queries, but there still are workarounds to get her to help you tell the time here. If you ask her what the time is, she will say: "Sorry, I don't know what time it is in _______ ." You can bypass this by asking: "What time...
Update 3: Don't bother purchasing IconProject--just visit http://iphoneza.co.za/IconSettings/ and it'll do the same, but for free (thx @justinluey)! Update 2: For Personal Hotspot, use (thx Paullomax): prefs:root=INTERNET_TETHERING Update: Here is a screenshot of my homescreen folder with shortcuts made, plus the images I used for the icons. If you want others, just do a Google...
Congrats to the following winners: @torontopeter JimCru @yeeitsjc Thanks to everyone for entering! ===== If you purchased the iPhone 4S, then you probably are using it in a case, naked, or with some sort of film protector. ZAGG finalized their iPhone 4S invisibleSHIELDs and sent us one for review. The new packages have an extra...